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Lamentations 2:17

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17Yahweh has adone what He purposed;

He has completed His word

Which He commanded from days of old.

He has pulled down bwithout sparing,

And He has caused the enemy to cbe glad over you;

He has dexalted the 1might of your adversaries.

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Footnotes

  1. 1Lit horn

Cross references

  1. aJer 4:28
  2. bLam 2:1, 2; Ezek 5:11; 7:8, 9; 8:18
  3. cPs 35:24, 26; 89:42; Is 14:29
  4. dDeut 28:43, 44; Lam 1:5

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

The Lord has done what he purposed;

he has carried out his word,

which he commanded long ago;

he has thrown down without pity;

he has made the enemy rejoice over you

and exalted the might of your foes.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The Lord has done what he planned;

he has fulfilled his word,

which he decreed long ago.

He has overthrown you without pity,

he has let the enemy gloat over you,

he has exalted the horn of your foes.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The Lord has done what he planned;

he has accomplished his decree,

which he ordained in days of old.

He has demolished without compassion,

letting the enemy gloat over you

and exalting the horn of your adversaries.

NLTNew Living Translation

But it is the Lord who did just as he planned.

He has fulfilled the promises of disaster

he made long ago.

He has destroyed Jerusalem without mercy.

He has caused her enemies to gloat over her

and has given them power over her.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Yahweh has done what he has planned;

he has fulfilled his promise

that he ordained from the days of old;

he has demolished and not shown mercy;

he has made an enemy rejoice over you,

he has exalted the might of your foes.

KJV 1900King James Version

The Lord hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old:

He hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee,

He hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.